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No. 749,125. PATENTED JAN. 5, 1904. A, R. BU'OKTON. FOLDING OR GOLLAPSIBLE BOX OF CARDBOARD OR THE LIKE.

APPLICATION FILED. MAR. 7, 1903.

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FOLDING 0R OOLLAPSIBLE BOX OF'GARDBOAIRD OR THE LIKE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 7, 1903.

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INVENTOR s a a s a N w W UNITED STATES Patented January 5, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT ROSLINGTON BUCKTON, OF MANCHESTER, ENGLAND, ASSIGNOR TO HUGH STEVENSON AND SONS, LIMITED, OF MANCHESTER, ENGLAND.

FOLDING OR COLLAPSIBLE BOX OF CARDBOARD OR THE LIKE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 749,125, dated January 5, 1904.

Application filed March 7, 1903.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALBERT ROSLINGTON BUOKTON,fancy-box manufacturer, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at Victoria Mills, Pollard street, Manchester, in the countyof Lancaster, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Folding or Collapsible Boxes of Cardboard or the Like, of which the following isa specification.

My invention relates to an improved manufacture of folding or collapsible boxes made of cardboard or like material.

In the accompanying two sheets of drawings, Figure 1 is a plan of the box with the sides and ends collapsed. Fig. 2 is a plan, and Fig. 3 an end elevation, of the box with the sides and ends raised and showing the extension-pieces outside. Fig. 4. is a similar view to Fig. 3, but showing the extensionpieces turned inside the box and the tongues on the extension-pieces passed through slots in the box ends. Fig. 5 is an end elevation of Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the complete box and lid.

I construct the box of any desired number of pieces of cardboard,with turned-in corners a diagonally bent and wired at b or otherwise fastened onto the ends 0 of the box. The ends a have extension-pieces (1 either intogral with the end or a separate piece hinged to it, and these extension-pieces 01 turn inside the box over the turned-in and diagonally bent corner pieces when the box is made up. So far this is a known form of box, both the diagonally-bent corner-pieces and extension-pieces being in common use.

My improvements consist of a tongue 8, cut

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preferably, outside the lid-rim, as shown in Fig. 6, which shows a cord h attached to each tongue e and connected bya hook and eye or equivalent fastening 1 to form a carrier for the box, as well as to hold the tongues closely to the box.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

In a folding box having diagonally-bent corner-pieces and extension-pieces hinged to the upper part of its ends, tongues formed out of the extension-pieces and with their free ends pointing toward the junction of the ends of the box and the extension-pieces, of slots formed in the ends and adapted to receive the tongues when the extension-pieces are turned inside the box, said tongues projecting upwardly through the slots substantially as herein set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two witnesses.

ALBERT ROSLINGTON BUOKTON.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM BURTON COOPER, ALBERT JAMES HAMPTON. 

